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They’re talking about EXIF data. Almost all websites strip it automatically these days. Lemmy/Piefed included so, they’re worrying you over nothing fyi.

VLC isn’t lacking support for this. Are you sure your friend knows how to turn on subtitles?

I match the average stated in the article. 5 years for a new build (CPU socket change is how I define that) since 2002. 2-3 years for GPU. Not counting 90’s family computers since that wasn’t my own money. Or laptops/mini PC.

Today I’ve reached my usual upgrade period but I didn’t this time. 5-6 year gap since my last builds last done in 2020 and 2021. The GPU remains the most frequent upgrade I still do. The rest dropped off…sort of. I bought a NAS that changed how I deal with storage. Gets complicated. Anyways, I don’t think I would’ve done a new desktop build for another 3 years at least even if things hadn’t gone to shit. Now with corpo AI bubble and daily global fascist tantrums jacking up prices? Hard to say. 8-10 years looks realistic?

Just comes down to performance and I’m not feeling any pinches yet with the two towers, a Ryzen 5800X in the office and Core i5 12600 in the living room. Office PC only gets living room hand-me-downs from now on. My gaming habits have changed a lot I’m primarily a couch PC gamer now.

I reserved 7 minutes after the option for 2nd wave went live, no follow-up email yet but glad I’ve not seen too many faulty hardware reports so far. Some people had a creaky left joystick afaik but not a widespread complaint.

I got fucking microwave steamed frozen veggies with no seasoning at all not even butter and if I didn’t eat the freezer burnt slop I wasn’t allowed to leave the table.

Trauma bonding hell yeah. 👊

I took my 3DS out of storage to revisit some games but I’m sad. I can’t play more than half an hour before my left thumb hurts too much and freezes up. Fuck getting old lol.

It’s always had issues. During the 4.X versions the app would crash constantly during playback on Windows.

I since moved to Linux, but I still use my solution to avoid future headaches.

Use https://web.stremio.com/ instead and set it to open in external player. In this case you can use any actually separate player you like since the website just barfs out a .m3u file after you choose something to watch. I have Firefox set to automatically open .m3u files in the mpv media player.

That way I avoid Stremio’s shitty unstable streaming service, player GUI, and its lack of HDR support.

I view it that way. I don’t personally care about this. There’s just not much or anything at all to post any given week 😅

Pretty sure it is actually out of stock now.

Since the big sites like https://fmhy.net/ are going to get mentioned I’ll just post my current bookmarks that I actually visit and useful software.

Can see the sidebar of my emulation community for a bunch of treats but the two mains are:

Retro gaming: https://r-roms.github.io/

For pre-patched game hacks and fan translations see: https://retrogametalk.com/repo/

I’m mostly direct downloading these days, but if you torrent learn how to open a port so you’re connectable. Look up “qbittorrent port forwarding guide” for example there’s a billion guides of there saying the same thing. If you’re American or some place that is aggressive against piracy be sure to also look up how to properly use a VPN with torrents so you don’t accidentally leak your IP during a connection hiccup. It happens but you can prevent it. If you happen to be Canadian just change to a pro pirate reseller ISP (Park Power and Teksavvy locally) and freely ignore the funny letters without wasting money on a VPN subscription.

https://tongkl.com/qbittorrent-port-forwarding-guide/

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+port+forward+router&ia=web

For Direct Download (DDL) I like to use a Download Manager for multi part downloads especially like:

https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

DDL/Torrents for gaming:

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/ - They have an English sub-forum, and I find them the best resource for pirating games as a Linux user especially. Mainly because the uploads aren’t bundled into some damnable Windows installer like Fitgirl or DODI. They’re just a plain old 7z archive on the game files. You just add the game exe directly into whatever Proton/WINE front-end you prefer like Lutris, Faugus Launcher, etc and play.

https://dodi-repacks.site/ - I still use them sometimes, high community trust factor.

https://fitgirl-repacks.site/ - Also trust worthy, but their installers don’t play nice with WINE. Good for Windows users…still kinda dumb long install times for very little in bandwidth savings in return IMO.

Books:

https://annas-archive.gl/

https://z-library.sk/

For movies and TV look into Stremio and a debrid service. Basically a big cloud server that caches any media torrent people add to it and then you get direct download streams which are very reliable generally. No buffering even on 4K HDR Bluray rips so long as you have fast enough download bandwidth.

Guide for beginners: https://guides.viren070.me/stremio

https://www.stremio.com/

Debrid services I like:

https://www.premiumize.me/account - more expensive combo deal. It’s debrid, vpn, cloud storage, and a few other things all in one.

https://alldebrid.com/ - cheaper, only debrid and has free trial.

https://stremio-addons.net/addons - use these to add debrid service and more to Stremio.

AIO > Torrentio IMO: https://stremio-addons.net/addons/aiostreams

Anime torrents: http://www.nyaa.si/

Then my fave all in one site for everything (especially music) I use:

https://rutracker.org/forum/index.php

Annoyingly russian yes but use an auto website translator browser extension and make an account. It’s a gigantic traditional bulletin board piracy forum that’s very active, very old (2004), well moderated, and labyrinthine. Has everything that exists under the Sun on there. Even the cracked Linux versions of some specific paid software like Davinci Resolve Studio. It’s English friendly for the actual content you can find, almost all posts will include the English versions of stuff if it exists. You can’t post comments in English however with a few curt exceptions, just check the Rules post.

Praise be to Goofy.

I can on piefed but it’s article small thumbnail instead, I think because it’s not a direct link ending in an image format.

I don’t have the impression that supporting xinput/directinput is a time consuming effort. Yeah extra buttons and trackpad wouldn’t work, so what? The community will make something long term for Linux/Windows I have no doubt, but this was an easily avoided L on good will PR.

Personally doesn’t matter much to me, I have 8bitdo controllers already. After owning Steam Deck for years now I really want the trackpads and gyro wherever possible.

Sandbox. I think it’s a great name because it’s the only thing that will show up in a web search for the game.

It’s nice to have something stand-alone finally usurp Kega Fusion 😅

They’ve added multiplatform builds to their website now including Linux :)

Love that for anyone who works for Meta. Hell’s minions complaining the boss is mean. Not a problem until it’s them.

Awwwwwwwww. Good. Go home, G.I.

Since the actual achievements are community productions, it’s been so fucking cool seeing widespread adoption of Retro Achievements. I love booting up less popular games and being surprised someone already went through the effort of making a cheevo set for the most random shit.